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February monthly round-up

Published over 1 year ago • 1 min read

Hope you're doing well. This month I posted 2 summaries and 2 blog posts.

Book summaries

  • ​The Art of Learning by Joshua Waitzkin (24 mins) — Waitzkin won 8 National Championships in Chess and later became a world champion in Tai Chi Push Hands. This is partly a memoir and partly a self-improvement book, explaining the principles that helped him succeed.
  • ​The Book of Why by Judea Pearl and Dana McKenzie (20 mins) — explains how statisticians misunderstood causality for a long time and how causal models can help us to better understand and control the world around us. A pretty complex but fascinating book.

Blog posts

Both blog posts this month are offshoots from The Book of Why. They can largely be read as standalone pieces, but the causal diagrams may be a bit confusing.

I'm currently working on a summary for Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein. While I don't usually pay close attention to the news, the events over the past month have made me want to try and better understand US politics. So you can look forward to that in a week or two.

Thanks and until next time,

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